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More than 800 people attended a birthday party for Rochester suffragist Susan B. Anthony Wednesday to raise money to help support her home and the museum dedicated to her life and work for women and civil rights.

Anthony, whose house is on Madison Street in the city, would be celebrating her 193rd birthday on Friday. She was the co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and leader in the campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote.

"The most powerful thing we do is tell Susan B. Anthony's story," said Deborah L. Hughes, president and chief ...